Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110317:15:48:00
One, two, and three, if the containment vessels hold, that's going to be forever. so that would be fine. the problem with the nuclear waste pools is that stuff is hot. those rods had recently been taken out of the reactors. so they're super hot. that management issue is going to have to be ongoing. and that's why they have to fix electricity. they can't rely on dropping water from helicopters. that helps, but fundamentally if they're going to address that, they have to get the cooling system going again. >> and then i wonder, you know, months from now, years from now, can these plants, they wo...